Franke: Baseball Has Lost its Jingle
by Mark Franke “Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet.” Recall that advertising jingle from 1974? It had quite a catchy tune and was a successful advertising campaign by all accounts. Think back to what America was like in 1974. There was the Watergate scandal, resulting in the resignation of an elected president. The Vietnam Read the full article…
Schansberg: To Cancel or Not
by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. I wonder if I’ll get “canceled” someday. I could trip up and say something awkward or inappropriate — and get crushed for it. It could be a phrase in a Facebook post or a newspaper article like this. It could be a slip in the classroom that gets reported by a Read the full article…
Morris: Facebook ‘Friendship’ Is Qualified
by Leo Morris None of my best friends are black. OK, I apologize. I did that just to get your attention. We have become so race conscious in the last couple of years, I figured that sentence would cause everybody to read further, if for no other reason than to see if I would say Read the full article…
The Outstater
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. ~ Carl Jung A FRIEND THINKS he was present at the beginning of critical race theory. It was a seventh-grade bible study in the early 1960s in a small town on the Great Plains. A student from a nearby college was leading the study and, hoping for a Read the full article…
Morris: Collecting Can Get Squirrelly
by Leo Morris I’ve been trying to make sense of NFTs, those digital creations called “non-fungible tokens” that can sell for millions of dollars. So, naturally, I thought of the squirrel. It showed up one day underneath the tree that stood in the outdoor break area for Fort Wayne Newspapers, the umbrella company for the Read the full article…
McGowan: Canceling Baseball’s Unwoke
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. In April, 2003, Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey canceled a Cooperstown event celebrating the 15th anniversary of the movie “Bull Durham.” Petroskey, a former Bush administrator, did not want its stars, Tom Robbins and Susan Sarandon, famous for their opposition to the Iraq war, to appear or speak. As Petroskey put Read the full article…
